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Poll: How many RSS feeds do you track - December 28, 2005

We're curious to know how many RSS feeds you have loaded into your RSS feeder of choice. If it's in the hundreds, we doubt you read them all every day, but that's for another poll. For now, let us know the number of feeds you track in total by selecting the poll choice that includes your total. We'll print the results in another week or so. Take our poll.Read Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments
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Feed Aggregation Made Easy by Google Reader API - December 28, 2005

Niall Kennedy has documented an API for Google Reader, beating Google to a public release of how developers can build their own feed-reading applications atop Google's engine. An update to Niall's original post reveals that the product manager of Google Reader confirmed the accuracy of Niall's work, and asserted that Google built the API first, then contstructed Google Reader as just one example of what could be done. The implication here is that Google might well develop new...
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Microsoft to use Firefox's RSS logo - December 23, 2005

There's probably never been so much fanfare over a tiny orange icon. But the icon Firefox browsers use to indicate that RSS feeds are available on a Web site is being adopted by Microsoft for its Internet Explorer 7 and, likely, Windows Vista operating system. Then the news came that Microsoft would use the Firefox icon in Office 12 -- particularly in Outlook. Personally, I prefer the RSS icon that says "RSS" or, when I'm feeling really geeky, the one that reads "XML." But the Redmond, Wash.,..
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Ads in RSS: Obnoxious Works - December 16, 2005

Don't get me wrong; I'm all for ads in RSS, and have said so for months. I have intuitively felt that inconspicuous ads would probably work best, if only because they would piss off readers less than big, loud ads. However, a study from Pheedo indicates the reverse is true, and it's two layers of bad news. First, ads run as separate RSS feed items are far more successful (generating about eight times the clickthroughs) as ads embedded in RSS items. Then, it turns out that blitzing the feed..
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'Twas the Week Before Xmas, and All Through the Network... - December 16, 2005

This weekend it's going to be quiet as a library in here. We're doing some maintenance-big, important stuff that I'd tell you about except then I'd have to be killed, and besides, I don't undertand it in the slightest. Posting in this blog will be light to nonexistent, and the comment sections will be entirely broken. Save up your rants and raves 'til Monday morning. Thanks! Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments
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Bloglines, NetNewsWire most popular RSS readers - December 15, 2005

After 10 days of collecting votes, we have some results in our Dec. 5 poll that asked you what RSS readers you use. Bloglines was the winner, with 187 votes, followed by NetNewsWire with 163 votes. It's interesting to see the number of readers who are Mac users. FeedDemon, considered tne best RSS readers for Windows by some, only received 34 votes. Readers could vote for multiple selections. Yahoo received 89 votes, followed by Google's 51 votes. "Other software...
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Yahoo! Partners with Six Apart to Distribute Movable Type - December 12, 2005

Yahoo! has agreed to provide Movable Type as the default blogging solution in its extensive small-business suite of services. The other hand will get washed as parent company Six Apart directs small-business traffic to Yahoo! for a complete ISPmerchantblogging package. There's nothing new about Web-hosting accounts with Movable Type pre-installed; the Movable Type site has a recommendation page for such services, to which Yahoo! has not been added. When I first glanced at the...
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Protopage: Ajax-Driven Personal Pages - December 7, 2005

Ajaxy personal pages with newsreaders are gaining traction and usability. Protopage is a free service that is astonishing easy to use and doesn't even require registration. (If you create a page and wish to make it persist at an easy-to-remember URL, you must register. But it's still free.) Floating information panels can be dragged around the screen, and there are three basic types: RSS reader; sticky note; and link panel. As far as I can tell there is no way to add a photo to a page,.
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Poll: Which RSS reader do you use - December 5, 2005

We'd like to hear which RSS readers you use to read RSS and Atom feeds. So we're running a poll that asks that very question. Please select all the readers that you use on a daily basis. If your reader isn't specifically in the list, feel free to tell us about it in the comments (along with an URL, if possible, so others can check it out). Which RSS reader do you use ..
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